Vesna Bukovec

Cinéma Féministe – The Home / La Maison / DOMA

Exhibition: Cinéma Féministe – The Home / La Maison / DOMA
Location: Cinema Zavod Udarnik, Maribor (SI)
Date: January 6 & 20, 2011

Curator: Evelin Stermitz

Artists: Vesna Bukovec, Lemeh42, Martha Rosler, Nina Sobell, Evelin Stermitz

From the data base of the video programming online platform ArtFem.TV, a monthly selection of works is screened at the cinema Udarnik in Maribor, Slovenia. The selection of works is chosen each month on an issue of contexts in the feminist field by Evelin Stermitz. During the year 2011 also FemLink is invited to screen their International Video Collages within the Cinéma Féministe screening program.
Cinéma Féministe is a screening program curated by Evelin Stermitz and organized in collaboration with son:DA and Zavod Udarnik.

Program for January 2011
The Home / La Maison / DOMA

From the 1970s onward and in the tradition in video art, circling around the self within a private space, this issue has been expressed by early video artists such as Martha Rosler, Nina Sobell, Suzanne Lacy, Janice Tanaka, and others, through performance pieces in a critical engagement around female subject constructions and definitions. But in which way is a new generation articulating and negotiating the private space within this field of a traditional women’s space? This video selection shows black and white images from the 1970s as well as current video works.

http://zavodudarnik.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/cinema-feministe/

Program Cinéma Féministe, January 2011 (pdf)

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I am participating with several videos:

• Everything I eat turns to health, beauty and love
  
• I can create positive change
  
• I love myself for who I am
  
• I trust in the process of life
  
• Moje sanje, lepo stanovanje/The Happiest Apartment in the World
  

Secret Heart

Exhibition: Secret Heart (solo exhibition by KOLEKTIVA)
Location: FPSW Foundation for Promoting Contemporary Art, Program Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
Date: December 18, 2010 – January 8, 2011

About the exhibition
Foundation for Promoting Contemporary Art invited KOLEKTIVA to make a new instance of the on-going project Special Place in the City in Warsaw. In this open end project we ask residents of different cities to show us their special place and share with us their personal stories, memories or opinions. The aim of this project is to give a voice to average citizen and to present small personal spaces and experiences as an alternative to official historical narratives that builds up a (tourist) image of a city. › Continue reading

Cinéma Féministe – The Face / La Face / OBRAZ

Exhibition: Cinéma Féministe – The Face / La Face / OBRAZ
Location: Cinema Zavod Udarnik, Maribor (SI)
Date: November 11 & 25, December 9, 2010

Curator: Evelin Stermitz

Artists: Duba Sambolec, Michelle Handelman, Ana Grobler, Liana Zanfrisco, Kika Nicolela, Vesna Bukovec, Alison Williams, Angelika Rinnhofer, Donna Kuhn, Iris Selke, Grace Graupe Pillard, Dominique Buchtala, Guerrilla Girls, and Evelin Stermitz

From the data base of the video programming online platform ArtFem.TV, a monthly selection of works is screened at the cinema Udarnik in Maribor, Slovenia. The selection of works is chosen each month on an issue of contexts in the feminist field by Evelin Stermitz.

Program for November and December 2010
The Face / La Face / Obraz

Various women artists are including their own face as an iconographic object and symbol bearer in their art works, or using the face of others, the former photographic portrait, transcending into the moving image. This video series addresses variant meanings of the woman’s face in a context of women’s issues when embedded in a socio-cultural heritage. The face can be seen as more then a signifier of our cultural norms, in the context of women often foregrounded not only as indicator for individual remembrance, not only associated to cultural norms such as beauty stereotypes, objectification of commodified women in advertisements, and not only as a surface for self-creation when mirroring the self to others, but read as political text and statement in a broader context.

http://zavodudarnik.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/serija-cinema-feministe

Program Cinéma Féministe, November-December (pdf)

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I am participating with the video Endless Game

KOLEKTIVA’s video at 18th ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival in Romania

Exhibition: 18th ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival;, Videoprojections from Slovenia
Locations: ARTeast Foundation, b5 studio – contemporary art space, Tirgu-Mures, Romania
Date: 6 November 2010

Selector: József Bartha
Artists: KOLEKTIVA (Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanič), Jasna Hribernik & Zmago Lenardič

Two videos from Video in Progress 2: City Perspectives (curated by Vesna Bukovec and Metka Zupanič, oganized by Photon Gallery) were selected to be screened at 18th ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival 2010 in Tirgu-Mures, Romania.

KOLEKTIVA is participating with the video Special Place in the City – Graz / 2006 / 00:38:21

Jasnost je v tem trenutku zelo pomembna / Clarity is everything right now

Exhibition: Vesna Bukovec, Jasnost je v tem trenutku zelo pomembna / Clarity is everything right now (solo exhibition)
Location: KAPSULA, Podhod Ajdovščina 1, 1000 Ljubljana
Date: 14 – 28 October 2010
Opening: Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 7 pm

The soft, unbroken line of the drawings in the series Their True Nature, by Vesna Bukovec, complements the texts and heightens the tension in the meaning of the words and the lines of the letters. The drawings are restrained and quiet, but in a certain way also very precise and demanding, for they require a special attitude of the viewer. But the drawings are not directly connected with the meaning of the texts in any way we usually expect, namely, that the picture illustrates the writing or that the writing explains the picture. The texts use the third person singular instead of the second-person direct address customary in horoscopes. As a result, we find ourselves in an ambivalent position: on the one hand, we are looking at drawings that are not signs from the zodiac, and on the other, at texts, and are unable to come fully to terms with either. We want the texts to describe the drawings even though we realize that the drawings do not illustrate them. These works’ humorous, even absurd, character, which reminds us of fables, pulls us into a spiral of meanings that volley back and forth from picture to text, and the resulting vortex causes a change in our viewpoint because of the moral that is absent.

The drawings are accompanied by the minute-long video Personal Advice, which presents the text of Bukovec’s horoscope in English. The text has been translated from English into Slovene and back again by the Google Translate program and is also read out loud by computer software. Although it distances itself in this way from the original, it nevertheless preserves some of the characteristic features of personality tests and motivational methodologies.

Excerpt from the text by Jernej Kožar
[full text (eng) / besedilo (slo)]

www.zavod-parasite.si
www.kapsula.si

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I will present video Personal Advice and large prints of drawings series Their True Nature.

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